Improvement in stump-extractors



me effet,

WILLIAMfSMITH, OF TOMAH, ASSIGNOR T0 HIMSELF AND HER-MAN GREVE, or srARrrA, WISCONSIN.

Letters Patent No. 109,466, dated Novemberl22, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN STUMP-EXTRACTORS.

4The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same,

To all whom this 'muy concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM SMITH, of Tomah, in theeounty of Monroe and State of Wisconsin, have invehtedraucw and useful' Improvement in Stump- Extractors and other` Machines; and I do hereby declare that the following is a'full, clear, and exact description thereof', which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the aecoiilpanying drawinggr forming part of this specification.

Theobject' of this invention is to furnish an apparatus for extracting stumps and other purposes, which shall be simple and durable and effective in operation and It consists in the inode of revolving the windingshaft oi'ldrum, as hereinafter described.

The aeeompauying drawing represents a sectional elevation of a stump-machine, showing the ratchetwheel on the shaft of the drum, and the compound leverl arrangement by which it is operated.

A is a gallows-fra-nie, supported on sill-pieces, B, bythe bars C.

D is the drum-shaft, upon which the ratchet-wheel E is fastened.

F represents a lever whose fulcruni is on thc shaft D. Gr is a hooked.spring-pand att-ached to the lever ll. This is the working pawl, and revolves the shaft by pulling as the lever l1 is raised.

Hf'is a transverse-shaft, supported in boxes, I, 'on` the braces C.

J is a holding-pawl, which hangs -looscly on this shaft and 'engages with the ratehet-wheel to prevent any counter-movement of the drum.

K is a lever, which works von this shaft for a fulerum, con'nectedwith the lever F by the crotch-connection L. Y

By this larrangement of the levers F and K it will bc seen vthat a compound lever purchase is obtained by using thelever K, which lever ,I designate the power-lever.77

'Ihe lever ll is called the speed-lever.

lhe hook-pawl G is'prcssed upward to its work by the spring:r m.

A powerful purchase for raising large stumps or other weights is obtained by using the power-lever. A less purchase is obtained by working the lever F direct.

The parts l1* and K, designated levers in the drawing, are in fact lever-sockets, the power-lever extended is seen in dotted lines.

This ratchet and lever-pawl arrangement is adapted te other purposes than that to which I hereby apply it, as, for'instanee, cotton and other pressesand for raising heavy weight-s. I d'o not, therefore, confine' myself to sturnp-cxtractors exclusively, but design to v apply the movement to all the purposes to which itis adapted.

Having thus described ln y invention,

What- I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isf-Y The relative arrangement on the frame of leversockets K H, pawls J G, straps L, and boxes I, as and for the purpose specified.

' WILLIAM SMITH.

Witnesses W. C. NYE, GEO. J. Y. SMITH. 

